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Penn State offers a variety of courses that cover chemical ecology-related topics. Use LionPATH to register for a course.

AGRO 460 Molecular Genetics of Transgenic Plants (3) Understanding the biology and inheritance of genetic traits through the use of genetically modified plants, progress on developments of transgenic crops, their advantages, problems and regulatory issues. Surinder Chopra

AGRO 518 Crop Plant Environmental Stress (or Plant Stress Biology) (3) Understanding plant responses to both abiotic and biotic environmental stresses, including heat and drought stress, herbivory, and pathogen attack. The course also includes information about combinations of stresses. Lectures are based on papers from the current literature, but background information about each type of stress is presented. Dawn Luthe

BIOL 499A Tropical Field Ecology (3) An intensive introduction to tropical biodiversity to be taught in Belize, Central America. This course is taught in late December to early January at various sites in Costa Rica. The course gives you the opportunity to do research in mangrove forests, around the base of an active volcano, and at nesting sites for leatherback sea turtles, among others. Jim Marden

ENT 424 Sensory Biology of Insects (3) The goal of this course is to give students an understanding of the ecological aspects of insect behavior. Students will gain knowledge about the mechanisms underlying the behavioral reactions of insects affecting mate-finding and courtship, host-finding and oviposition, and dispersal and migration. Emphasis is placed on ethological and physiological knowledge concerning orientation mechanisms, communication systems, learning, and the role of the nervous system in integrating behavior in insects as they relate to ecological and evolutionary outcomes. Tom Baker

PLBIO 516 (BIOL) Modern Techniques and Concepts in Plant Molecular Biology (2) An intensive introduction to contemporary molecular biology methods as applied to the study of plants. Prerequisite: general biology and plant physiology at the undergraduate level. Surinder Chopra and Loida Escote-Carlson

PPATH 533 Molecular Genetics of Plant–Pathogen Interactions (3) In depth discussion/review of the primary literature on the mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions at the molecular and cellular levels. Seogchan Kang